[governance] Netmundial - remote participation

[Deirdre Williams]

Thank you Garth.
I was thinking along the same lines. The problem with categories is that
they limit freedom - for example if you are in a "private sector" category
it then becomes difficult to put forward your concerns as "civil society"
and "end user" both of which categories you also belong to. Divide and
rule. :-)
I understand that there may be a solution in the works, but meanwhile, as a
little light relief, please have a look at this very short short story from
Rudyard Kipling:
And yet Suleiman-bin-Daoud was not proud. He very seldom showed off, and
when he did he was sorry for it. Once he tried to feed all the animals in
all the world in one day, but when the food was ready an Animal came out of
the deep sea and ate it up in three mouthfuls. Suleiman-bin-Daoud was very
surprised and said, 'O Animal, who are you?' And the Animal said, 'O King,
live for ever! I am the smallest of thirty thousand brothers, and our home
is at the bottom of the sea. We heard that you were going to feed all the
animals in all the world, and my brothers sent me to ask when dinner would
be ready.' Suleiman-bin-Daoud was more surprised than ever and said, 'O
Animal, you have eaten all the dinner that I made ready for all the animals
in the world.' And the Animal said, 'O King, live for ever, but do you
really call that a dinner? Where I come from we each eat twice as much as
that between meals.' Then Suleiman-bin-Daoud fell flat on his face and
said, 'O Animal! I gave that dinner to show what a great and rich king I
was, and not because I really wanted to be kind to the animals. Now I am
ashamed, and it serves me right. Suleiman-bin-Daoud was a really truly wise
man, Best Beloved. After that he never forgot that it was silly to show off;
http://www.boop.org/jan/justso/butter.htm

Best wishes
Deirdre


On 19 April 2014 10:42, Garth Graham <garth.graham at telus.net> wrote:

> I do share your concern, and can offer an opinion as to why the hubs
> method of participation was chosen.  I just completed a fast scan of the
> meaning of stakeholder implicit in the NETmundial document and posted it as
> a “whole page” comment to that introduction page.  I found that
> stakeholders are not anyone who self-identifies as such. They are qualified
> into collective categories of organizations that are then “represented.”
>  It would be consistent with that implicit assumption to aggregate
> individuals into “hubs” (or as ICANN does, into internal “communities”).
>  But it’s not good “Internet” if the choice to connect doesn’t rest at the
> level of the individual.
>
> GG
>
> On 2014-04-19, at 6:52 AM, Deirdre Williams wrote:
>
> > The apparent limitations on remote participation for this meeting are of
> great concern at least to me.
> > I have added this comment:
> > The absence of a truly open remote participation for this meeting is of
> great concern. The lack of something like Webex, or whichever system is
> used by ICANN for all of its public meetings, automatically limits the
> participation of the majority of the largest stakeholder group named by
> this document, the users.
> > to paragraph 1 of the introduction
> http://document.netmundial.br/introduction/
> > Does anyone share this concern?
>
>


-- 
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Arthur Lewis, Nobel Prize Economics, 1979
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